Perceval Lowell

Posted on Mon 11 May 2020 in art • Tagged with science, poetry

PERCEVAL LOWELL

Your mercurial way,

Charmed us.

Your insight stunned us,

Here we are!

Release us from darkness.

J Cairns


History: Paleolithic

Posted on Sun 10 May 2020 in dictionary

Paleolithic refers to the era 2,500,00- 10,000 BCE. In the Greek language pleolithic translates as "old stone age."


To Go On

Posted on Wed 06 May 2020 in art • Tagged with survival, literal translation, poetry

TO GO ON! (Literal)

Do not give up, do not be beaten,

Do not feel like a slave, not even a slave;

Tremor of dread, think bravo,

And lash out fiercely, already badly wounded

Have the tenacity of the moldy nail,

That old and mean again becomes a nail;

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The thundering line...

Posted on Mon 04 May 2020 in art • Tagged with museinarms, militaryhistory, poetry

The Thundering Line


Announcing RPN

Posted on Sun 03 May 2020 in tech • Tagged with calculator, gplv3, lex, yacc, c++, programming

RPN is a reverse polish command line calculator and repl. It is written in C++ with Lex and Yacc generated grammar. RPN provides a similar syntax as classic reverse polish calculators. I have just released it under the GNU GPLv3 on my github page.


History: Homo Sapiens

Posted on Sun 03 May 2020 in dictionary

Homo Sapien is the biological classification which includes human beings as we know them today. The first homo sapiens appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago.